Monday, 8 February 2010



Thumbnailin' an' letterin' d'thumbnails all night long...

Watching: TNA, Royal Rumble, RAW, Smackdown, Supernatural (boy, what is this show's deal with female characters?), Mercy, the Middle, Cougar Town

Saturday, 6 February 2010


Watching: Smallville - the JSA episode. My review is thus: AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Hawkman walking across the room is just hysterical to watch, as is Michael Shanks' Batman voice when he's trying to hold a conversation, Stargirl is clearly a short 30something woman from her first appearance onscreen and her costume is lamentable for a list of reasons that begin with "that top is fifteen years too young for her" and end with "teenage cosplayers have done a better job in their bedrooms", Lois' dialogue is spectacularly terrible - in fact 90 percent of the dialogue is terrible, mostly because it comprises of characters talking exposition and unnecessary/outdated pop-culture references to each other, and Doctor Fate is surely a legend in the making for choosing to remake someone on the genetic level using his occult powers rather than just step to one side to avoid being stabbed to death by a purple icicle-phallus. It's beyond terrible in places, trying to have all this daft imagery but scuppered by the fact that since day one Smallville has thought itself too serious for such things - there's simply too much disparity between concept and execution for any objective evaluation to avoid, and the best way to enjoy it - as I have for several years now - is to hunker down with someone like yourself who watches the whole thing as car-crash television and shout what you hope are amusing jokes at the screen, though in this episode, that comprised mostly of shouting "Thundercats - HOOOOOOOOOO!" when the camera pans across Hawkman's golden girdle, or quoting any of Anult Sweatyknickers' awful cold-related puns from his turn as Mr Freeze in Batman and Robin every time the villain 'The Icicle' shows up onscreen, because he has exactly the same skin make-up as the Governator did, and the fact that this is all done with a straight face is either the saddest thing on television ever, or the most awesome. Standout moment is probably Dr Fate's 'Henshin!' sequence, which, like the Wonder Twins' "Powers - ACTIVATE!" scene, is pitch-perfect silliness for this kind of material, only let down by everyone else in the room trying to act grown-up instead of joining in the fun.

Friday, 5 February 2010


Bah! Hate time-limit sketching, but it does loosen up the creative juices. I'm probably imagining that the sketch of a giggly girl looks ruder than I'd intended, though - dirty mind, me.

Watching: Community, CSI:NY, Bones, Secret Life of the American Teenager, The Deep End

Thursday, 4 February 2010


Watching: Black Dynamite ("Yo' momma would be turnin' in her grave if she was here to see this"), Leverage, The Cleveland Show

Wednesday, 3 February 2010


Good old Vista - never lets me down in letting me down:

Nonetheless, still got some work done, and I'm still scribbling away in the hope of finishing on schedule (one page a day, double page spreads every two days)

Watching: Survivors, Mock the Week, Human target, Men of a Certain Age

Tuesday, 2 February 2010


Watching: Big Bang Theory, 24

Monday, 1 February 2010

Balls, but Saucy Monday keeps taking me by surprise. I can't be buggered thinking up anything too saucy, so here's a quick inking/colour job on a deliberately oversexualised superhero with a massive rack, although there a slight 'amputee' vibe going on that I didn't notice at the scribbles stage...

Anyhoo, there's not much boobage going on in that because my niece has taken to reading comics of late and seems to want to read mine, so I'm being careful to not go too far into letch territory, hence lots of skin but no arse or boob cleavage. I'm throwing the floor open to suggestions for Saucy Mondays, mind - outright filth probably won't happen, but if you have a thing for stockings or dragons or whatnot, I'll probably have a bash. Furfags need not apply.

Watching: Simpsons, Terminator: Salvation
Everything else: Fallout 3 which I am determined to cane